Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.